News from February 2021
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C.- House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement on the Pre-Existing Conditions Protection Act of 2021...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: The award-winning Shelter-in-Place Virtual Film Series (@SIPVFilmSeries) announces a schedule of 10 documentary films that it will screen for Black History Month. The screening of “The Green Siblings Project" on February 9 will feature a conversation with Ernest Green, a member of the Little Rock Nine and the first African American graduate of Little Rock Central High School.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for fentanyl conspiracy and unlawful possession of firearms, including an AR-15 rifle.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today issued a proposed rule to update the agency’s Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) to align with the seventh revision of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).
By USDA Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 101,600 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, invite the public to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Sand to Snow National Monument with a free public nature hunt, February 12-14.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Our deepest condolences to our FBI family and to the family and friends of FBI Special Agents Dan Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger in the wake of their deaths on Feb. 2, 2021, in Sunrise, Florida. We especially feel the loss here in the Middle District of Florida, as we were fortunate to have worked...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A former federal firearm licensee was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield for firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Shyreek Thatch, 21, of Lexington, North Carolina, was sentenced today to 108 months imprisonment for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of a 100 grams or more of heroin and a quantity of methamphetamine and cocaine, distribution of a quantity of heroin (aiding and abetting), and possess with intent to distribute and distribution of a 100 grams or more of heroin and a quantity of methamphetamine and cocaine (aiding and abetting).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson, Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Rosa L. DeLauro, Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio along with Homeland Security Transportation...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after attending a White House meeting with President Biden, Vice President Harris, and House Democratic leaders to discuss the urgent need to provide COVID-19 pandemic relief to the American people...
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Ahead of next week’s Education and Labor Committee markup of a budget reconciliation bill that will likely include a massive wish list from the far-left, the Committee’s Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget Rob Fairweather requesting details on unused COVID-19 relief funds.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA, GA - To protect the health of those who live, work, and visit national parks and National Park Service (NPS) facilities, and in support of President Biden’s Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask‐Wearing, NPS is immediately implementing a mask requirement for...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Two roommates have been sentenced to a combined 31 years in federal prison for drug crimes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - Acting U.S. Attorney Bruce D. Brandler today issued the 2020 Annual Report for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee leaders Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) yesterday issued a subpoena to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), compelling production of documents related to the committee’s investigation of organ procurement organizations (OPOs), and potential...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the State of Hawaii’s Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism, Honolulu, Hawaii, to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
Release: HONOLULU - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport in Guam (GUM) has installed a new computed tomography (CT) scanner in the security checkpoint. The scanner utilizes state-of-the art technology and improves the ability of TSA officers to detect items inside carry-on luggage that are potential security threats.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: On Jan. 20, 2021, the President signed Executive Order 13991, Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing (E.O. 13991). E.O. 13991 directs federal agencies to: “… immediately take action, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to require compliance with [Centers for Disease...
